Ohio's statewide youth anti-tobacco group, stand, has been named the Youth Advocate of the Year Group Winner by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids for their leadership in the fight against tobacco.
The movement includes nearly 2,000 active youth members across the state and more than 60,000 web registrants at http://www.standonline.org.
For the past four years, stand has been helping to reduce youth tobacco use in Ohio by using creative activism to educate the public and policy leaders about tobacco issues.
stand has delivered thousands of petitions from across Ohio and the rest of the country to MTV's headquarters, requesting that the network stop glamorizing tobacco in its programming.
Project SUSO was framed as a statewide activism contest, with stand Teams earning points for their activism efforts, creativity, and media coverage generated.
"Every day, 1,500 kids in the United States become regular smokers and one- third of them will die prematurely from tobacco-related diseases.
Nationally, tobacco use kills more than 400,000 people and costs the nation more than $89 billion in health care costs each year.
---The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is building a healthier future by changing public attitudes and public policies regarding tobacco use.
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